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I take a new, white sheet of paper, my favorite pen – the one with the dark blue ink that writes so smoothly – and start writing. Oh yes, this is going to be such a good summary. But then it happend. I made a typing error; the “rn” looks like an “m”. Dammit. No Tipp-Ex around. I guess I have to start all over!

It’s 8pm and Im getting ready for a night out. The outfit is already decided and now let’s do the make up. I’m going for cateyes. Challenge accepted! So I pull off the first eyeliner on my right lid and it turns out perfectly. Alright, same thing other side now… mh not bad, but I can do better! I take a cotton bud and the procedure starts again. And again. And maybe again until it often ends in a disaster rather than in a perfect eyeliner.

If you have recognized yourself in these scenarios, then you are probably also a perfectionist. Accordingly, some things just need to reach a certain standard while mistakes need to be reduced to a minimum. This is especially the case with things or activities, we believe we are extraordinary good at and therefore we have to prove it to ourselves every time. So once we have reached our standard, or even surpassed it, we feel confirmed and are proud of ourselves. However, it can also take a complete different way when we let the perfectionism take control over us: It will waste our time, make us insecure and leave us with an even worse result. And this is exactly what we were trying to avoid.

Perfectionism, up to a certain extent, does not necessarily have to be something bad, quite the contrary actually, as it helps us to grow and improve ourselves, however, only under the condition that we are able to control the perfectionist in us, and not vice versa. Meaning, at some point realizing our endless persistence and simply saying “Screw it!” and be content with what we have accomplished. Because even if it does not seem perfect to us, we can still be proud of ourselves and spare a lot of time and nerves.

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I know I’ve been annoying you so much with the EntreDeux Fashionblog Battle, but my loves, eventually all the effort was worthwhile, because I won! Next to two other great bloggers, Anouk and Marijke, I was chosen to be one of the bloggers for the EntreDeux Blog and, now comes the even greater part, I will be given 250€ each month for a year to spend at the shops in EntreDeux. And, did I mention that there is a Zara in there? Haha. I still cannot believe it and I am so, soo happy. A good friend of mine told me today, that it’s basically a scholarship for shopping that we won. So, dearest EntreDeux, thanks so much for supporting my talent. ;)

So apart from the votings ( thanks so much for your support!!), and the blog post including the vlog (see it here), on the day of the finale we were challenged with another task. Each one of us had to shop an outfit, dress up and style a model within 1,5 hours. Furthermore, we were all given a denim shirt which we should include in the outfit and therefore we had to build a look around that shirt. To make it more difficult, we were only allowed to buy one item from each shop and we were assigned a shop where we had to buy something. Well, I got assigned a bookshop, which was okay, as I simply bought a fashion magazine for the outfit. I went for a very sophisticated look, including a mixture of materials- denim and leather – as well as a mixture of style – rock-chic and sporty. And to be honest… I love my look, haha! So did the jury I guess, as they appointed me as one of the winners. :)

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I have a bucket list. A list, which is deeply embedded in my mind that contains all the things that I want to do in my life. An ultimate To-Do list, where ticking off things feels extremely satisfying and makes me really happy. But somehow I did not manage to write all this stuff down yet; actually I am not planning to do so either. While it feels great to reach his goals, not reaching them and having a stupid list in front of you all the time with all things you might never fulfill in your life is just depressing. Therefore, my list will stay right there where it will never reach the public nor become official.

Close to the top of this list used to be “Visit Berlin FashionWeek”. Therefore, I used to participate in quite some sweepstakes and of course with no big results. So I could not rely on luck any longer and soon I was able to tick it off my list – with the help of my blog. By now, I visited Berlin FW even twice and also went to Amsterdam FW. However, being a never-completely-satisfied person that always wants to achieve more and more, I decided to visit at least to other international FashionWeeks in the future. I hope that this plan works out, because watching NY FW through the internet is only half as fun as being there I guess.

Btw, today I have a second look for the Denim Week! And it is all about my new boyfriend. The boyfriend jeans; a model which I absolutely love at the moment, because, well, it simply looks extremely cool!

I am an absolute jeans-person and I thank good old Levi Strauss for this genius invention. There is nothing more comfortable than a perfectly fitting pair of jeans – yea, I think it even tops the jogging pants! Because in contrast to these loose sweat pants, jeans can actually make your legs looks great. Plus, since I live here in Maastricht and need to ride my bike all the time, I have to rely on pants even more. Biking and wearing a skirt does not really work out for me, but fortunately there are so many different jeans styles these days, among which you find some really feminine cuts. So, due to all of this love directed towards denim, I decided to dedicate this week to the jeans and have prepared two denim looks for you. In today’s outfit I am wearing my favorite jeans model, the high-waist skinny jeans, combined with a monochrome coat and booties. It’s a really nice look for spring, and when looking outside my window now, I feel like spring is coming very, very soon.

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